4 Quotes & Sayings By Amos Tversky

Amos Tversky was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1933. He received his Ph.D. in biometry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1956 and his D.Sc. (honoris causa) from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991 Read more

He is the originator of the Israeli version of the conjunction fallacy (the "principle of indifference"), with his student Danny Kahneman, who shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 with Richard Thaler and Vernon Smith. Tversky's research focused on sequential decision making under uncertainty, choice under uncertainty, heuristics and biases, and social choice. He also collaborated with Kahneman on the work on prospect theory.

It's frightening to think that you might not know something,...
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It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on. Amos Tversky
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[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up. Amos Tversky
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Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted. Amos Tversky